ETV Expands Its Technical Capabilities to Broadcasters

Hollywood-based ETV recently signed an agreement that will adapt the company's broadband technology to work with broadcasters to improve streaming of live video. The system will be compatible with the Programming and System Interface Protocol (PSIP) systems used by broadcasters to identify and manage their DTV broadcas

Author:: TVTechnology
Publish date:: Jul 1, 2004

Hollywood-based ETV recently signed an agreement that will adapt the company's broadband technology to work with broadcasters to improve streaming of live video. The system will be compatible with the Programming and System Interface Protocol (PSIP) systems used by broadcasters to identify and manage their DTV broadcasts.

ETV is a licensee of American IDC, which is a developer of Internet online communities, such as dating, music and entertainment portals. Joining ETV in this agreement is John Wilkie's Etherguide Prophesy, and the goal of the partnership to create an online Web streaming environment where viewers can watch television programming and easily click on buttons to receive more information or purchase products.

The Local Enhancement Collaborative (LEC), comprising four public television stations and sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, has launched an updated version of the ETV Cookbook website (www.etvcookbook.com) for those interested in Enhanced Television.

Regulatory and Standards

The American Film Institute has announced its 2003 AFI Enhanced TV Workshop and production season with a call for entries to networks and TV producers to participate in its program by developing "innovative 'enhanced TV' applications" to run on set-top boxes, game consoles, broadband networks, connected DVD's and wirel

Regulatory and Standards

Philips, Linear Acoustic and Coding Technologies have announced a new technology that will allow broadcasters to transport high-quality stereo and multichannel audio via a single AES/EBU circuit.

Harris announces $3.2 million transmitter deal with Mississippi ETV promo image

Statewide ETV network orders solid state DTV VHF and UHF transmitters for their eight stations.

Regulatory and Standards

RealNetworks released RealDVD, a DVD archiving program is says complies with the CSS (Content Scramble System) Agreement, the digital rights scheme used on most DVDs.

Regulatory and Standards

The Federal Communications Commission expanded eligibility for licenses in the Cable Television Relay Service (CARS) to all multichannel video programming distributors. That means that operators of private cable systems and direct broadcast satellite (DBS) systems, among others, may now qualify for licenses in the 12

Regulatory and Standards

If the number of new product introductions can be utilized as a barometer of the broadcast industry’s health, it looks like we might be finally pulling out our three-year-long slump. Everyone—from the RF guys to the camera companies—issued a virtual mountain of new products at this year’s NAB, and automation was no exc

The American Film Institute has launched its 2002 AFI Enhanced TV (eTV) Workshop and production season to help develop interactive programming. The production season runs July-December. The workshop joins television producers with design and technology innovators to develop working iTV programs. The workshop is a prod